FIGHTING IN KOREA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26397, 16 April 1951, Page 7

FIGHTING IN KOREA

Allies Succeed In Surprise Attack

(Rec. 10 p.m.) TOKYO. April Allied troops surprised the Communists in central Korea with a spectacular pre-dawn attack which won high ground at the eastern end of the Hwachon reservoir to-day. Flares dropped by aircraft lighted the way for the advance to within rifle range of Yanggu, seven miles north of the 38th parallel. United Nations forces controlled most of the reservoir’s south shore but Still were thwarted in attempts to capture a 275-foot dam near Hwachon at its western end

Allied troops in west central Korea deepened a three-pronged wedge aimed at Chorwon, 17 miles above the parallel. Enemy resistance is heavy. The Souih Korean Navy said to-day that South Korean Marines had seized virtual control of the Onjin Peninsula on Korea’s west coast and held it almost to Chlnnampo, the port for the enemy capital of Pyongyang.